US-Iran agreement hopes emerge then recede as Trump denies reported terms

Former US President Donald Trump and a Pakistani mediator initially suggested a US-Iran agreement could be signed on Sunday, possibly in Europe, with implications for the Strait of Hormuz. However, Trump later refuted the specific terms of any such deal as reported by Iranian media. Iran, for its part, maintained that no final accord had been reached. These developments occur amid ongoing US military strikes against Iran and claims by Iran's Revolutionary Guards of retaliatory attacks on US facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. Egypt has called upon both Washington and Tehran to seize the "opportunity" for a diplomatic resolution, following Trump's earlier cancellation of strikes and previous threats of "very hard" strikes and seizing "total control of their oil and gas markets."

Sources: Le Monde